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Originally Posted by TakeHerOnACruise
yeah i agree mers it's quite a boring viewpoint but it's one that plugs a lot of leaks.
like this isn't an attack on you, but you say you've blown $3k playing super turbos? why not just keep the $3k in your back pocket surely that would stop you from burning out once you bought some new clothes or took your women out, filled ur car with some GAS or w/e.
First of all, most of that was from NLHE HUSNG super turbos that they had before FTOPS 9. I feel quite confident I had an edge in them. It's incredibly results oriented to say "why did you blow $3k playing them?" By choosing to play, I accepted a range of outcomes. That was one of them. I'm easily up lifetime in non-HUSNG poker ventures and playing some other form of poker while taking a break from the regular grind while being +EV (or even neutral EV, heaven forbid) is more defensible than clicking through this massive thread and looking at a lot of tits and nobody's calling that a waste of EV.
It's also ironic that you're insta-passing on playing 2+2ers at the stake of your choosing, because hey, you know what makes you make a lot more money? Getting better. That's why I like to play people in this forum from time to time and not just monotonously focus on fish. It's fun, it's interesting, and it makes me a better poker player. I like playing nathan a lot because I know he's better than me and I want to learn more about how. I could pay him for coaching or, assuming he does have an edge on me, I could play him for $10/hour effective. I easily get it back from what I learn from him.
If you don't need to play other types of poker once in a while to keep the game fun and interesting, cool. And yeah, I agree with you, when it comes down to it the biggest reason I play poker is the money. But that doesn't mean indulging myself in the game theory of 2-entry satties down to 3 left or brushing up on my uncomfortably good razz game means I'm bragging about being degen. It means I actually enjoy playing and am enough of a nerd to use poker to take a break from poker.